Renewing Your Makeup Kit
Renewing Your Makeup Kit
The best tricks for renewing your makeup kit. A few simple tips to put everything in order!
Renew your make up case. Save time in the mornings!
Empty your toiletry bag and put some order in it!
-Discard all broken products.
-Discard all products beyond their use-by date.
-Check the expiry date on each product. Make up products, once open, should be discarded according to their ingredients. Follow these guidelines:
-Mascara: about three-four months after opening. If you use it a lot it may be that it doesn’t even last three months.
-All texture products in powder form such as shadow, matt powders and foundation -last about two years.
-Foundation in cream form, correctors, shadows or rouges in cream form: these last about a year and a half.
-Lipsticks: about two years.
-Lip gloss: about two years. See when the color or texture changes; it is possible that if you have exposed it to temperature changes then it may have gone off.
-Check the product packaging, a symbol such as this one normally appears and besides it a number and M ( for months). The number tells you the number of months for which the product will last in a perfect state once opened. It is also important for you to ask when you buy. Products which last over 36 months will not have this symbol.
-Face creams and cleansers have different shelf lives, depending on their ingredients- They can last from 3 to 12 or 24 months.
Clean all your products with a damp towel, and dry them with a soft cloth. They will come out looking new.
Don’t forget to clean all your brushes, and you’ll see how much easier it is to put make up on. Here’s how:
Natural hair brushes.
Clean them with a mild shampoo, with a neutral fragrance.
Rinse them in cold or lukewarm water (avoid using hot water)
Apply a hair pack or intensive hair conditioner
Allow it to take effect for a few minutes.
Rinse again, until you are sure there is no remaining soap.
Synthetic-hair brushes
Clean your synthetic-hair brushes with a grease-removing product, such as washing-up liquid.
Rinse them in lukewarm water and ensure there is no remaining soap.
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